Visual Basic Programming Course

Course Objectives: What Will I Learn?

Delegates who complete the Visual Basic Programming course will be able to:

Write VB.NET Console programs.
Understand and debug VB.NET programs.
Understand the principles of the Common Language Runtime.

Intended Audience: Is This The Right Course For Me?

This course is intended for:

The Visual Basic Programming course is suitable for developers who want to develop applications for the .NET framework.

Course Prerequisites: Am I Ready For The Course?

Previous programming experience is essential.

Please ensure you meet the prerequisites for the Visual Basic Programming Course before you attend the course. Read the importance of course prerequisites to understand why this is necessary.

Course Contents: What Does The Course Cover?

Introduction to Visual Basic: Common Language Runtime. • Differences between Visual Basic in the .NET environment and VB 6.0. • Upgrade and portability issues.

Object Orientation in Visual Basic: Concepts. • Base & derived classes. • Overloading vs Overriding. • Virtual methods. • Shadowing. • Member scope & access. • Constructors & destructors. • Statefull versus stateless.

Program Structure and Project Types: Console applications. • WinForms. • Deployment. • Assemblies. • Name spaces. • CLR system classes.

Form Based Development: WinForms. • Visual inheritance. • Menus. • Form events. • Dialogs. • MDI interfaces and execution.

Common Programming Tasks: File access. • External libraries. • System name spaces. • COM Interop library. • Using legacy components.

ActiveX Controls: Creation. • Inheritance. • Properties, methods and events. • Intrinsic controls. • Custom controls.

Data Types, Expressions and Statements: Data types. • Type safety. • New system data types. • Type conversion.

Procedures, Functions and Program Statements: Keywords. • Built-in. • Procedures and functions. • Optional parameters. • New constructs. • Exception handling.

Database Development: ADO.NET. • Providers. • ODBC, OLEDB and SQL Server. • System.Data.sqlClient. • Connection & Command objects. • Data Adapter, Reader, Set, Table objects. • Connected vs disconnected. • SQL & stored procedures. • Data controls, Grids, Lists and Combo boxes • Bound controls versus unbound controls.